This feels safe:
run against the gloaming
towards a child, to a mirror.
It is entirely safe.
Undrink the brimming cup
or awaken when the pin drops.
How? That is no bed for sleep
nor a cup to be denied.
The secret word is passage
to the dark forest. The apple is
far from the sheltering tree.
The only light is fireflies swarming
to please the motherless child.
The begging: "Girl, fade before you
are saved." It must come
with the early clarion call.
She runs for the horizon-no matter
that clouds gather. Shelter
is not under the bowers
of the stately and unbowed.
When will the orphaned rest?
Sunlight broke before the final
spoken word. No heart can
wound when it is beaten.
Girl, three times denied,
fold back the blanket of rain.
Step forward and touch fingers
with the woman in the silver sky.
Copyright Tina Cheng 2012
Welcome to Our Humble Blog
a dear friend and i have decided to write again. in an effort to get our creative juices mutually flowing (skip past the innuendo and move on to the meat, yeah?), we've decided to co-author a blog and fill its, er, electronic pages with our work. however, to make things interesting and challenging, we have to abide by the following rules:
the rules:
creative criticism and other forms of comments are welcome.
the week starts tomorrow.
GAME ON!
the rules:
- 1 creative entry per week (7 days) minimum
- said entry must be new, and never before published
- said entry cannot be a review of any sort
- said entry may have no minimum, or maximum number of words
- old entries can be published provided that an introduction with dates is included before the main body of the work.
- failure to write a new entry as defined above will result in penalty for the offender in the form of treating the non-offending co-author to a meal, with drink of course.
creative criticism and other forms of comments are welcome.
the week starts tomorrow.
GAME ON!
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